Example sentences of "the [noun pl] set to " in BNC.
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| 1 | With characteristic ingenuity , the Germans set to boring two mile-long tunnels — appropriately called ‘ Gallwitz ’ and ‘ Crown Prince ’ — in order to bring troops right up to the northern base of the Mort Homme in safety . |
| 2 | The craftsmen set to work , the people pour in their gifts , and the tabernacle , its fittings and the priests ' robes are all completed exactly as God has laid down . |
| 3 | In the first room he looked into , the window space had already been commandeered by two native pensioners and an indigo planter ; in the next room he was just in time to see the camel guns fired … the sofa recoiled on its protesting castors and the men serving the guns set to work to re-load . |
| 4 | An even bigger shock was in store when the organisers set to and began breaking out a peg for everyone . |
| 5 | Boys who feel backward grow backward , even when they are not , for they suffer from the illusion that by nature they can not solve the problems set to them . |
| 6 | I 've shown the keynames set to their default values . |
| 7 | The girls set to work , sewed , talked , laughed , and combed their hair . |
| 8 | Wheelchair-bound Ethlyn Whittaker , aged 56 , from Great Sankey , Warrington , has started a campaign against the means test forms , and has hit out at the charges set to be introduced in October . |
| 9 | He had a red fox-fur hat with the ear-flaps set to the flying position , felt overboots with rubber soles , and no gloves . |